Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once Marvin has collected her samples, she slices them into thin wafers just 30 microns thick to test their optical properties and to perform chemical analyses...
Stereotypes don't materialize out of thin air. No matter how patently offensive, distorted or uncomfortable, there is always a certain degree of statistical significance at the core...
...with salt water are still available and considered safe (if they leak, the saline does no harm), they have drawbacks. They can shift as a woman moves, and the water may settle into the lower portion of the breast, stretching and tightening the skin. They are not recommended for thin women or for those who have undergone mastectomy, since these women do not have enough extra padding to support the viscous envelope...
...inelegant entry of her own: in interviews with the Post, she brandished daggers at the press and at her husband's campaign handlers, denouncing such ignominies as their alleged refusal to serve food on charter flights, which caused her to lose "14 pounds in one week." She became "so thin," she said, that "my skirt would move around and my kick pleat would end up in the front, because there was nothing to hold it . . . It was just awful...
Bush paid a high political price in exchange for this thin gruel. By pressing Tokyo to commit itself to purchase specific quantities of U.S. products, Bush abandoned his long-held free-trade principles for less competitive "managed trade," in which governments agree to pressure private industries to meet preset goals. Trying typically to have it both ways, the President repeatedly warned that any departure from free trade would damage the U.S. economy, which has become increasingly dependent on sales of American exports. Arriving in Washington on Friday, he denied that the Tokyo accords were tantamount to protectionism...